Improvement



E. H. ELLIOTT.

Garriage-Buvers.

Patented Nov. 4, 1873..

AM. FHDM-UTHMRAPHIL CaMY/ossamss mums EDSON H. ELLIOTT, OF GHARLESTOVVN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT lN CARRlAGE-COVERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,193, dated November 4, 1873; application tiled April 30, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EnsoN H. ELLIOTT, of Gharlestown, of the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful invention having reference to WVheel' Carriage Covers; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure l is a front eleva 'on, Fig. 2 an end view, and Fig: 3 a longitudinal section, of it.

In such drawings, A. isto be supposed to represent the ceiling, and lithe floor, of a room or carriage-apartment of a stable, '0 being a carriage upon such floor. The cover for such carriage is represented at D, consisting of a parallelopipedal-tormed tent, a, and two met angular frames, 1) 0, one being at the upper part, and the other at the lower part, of the tent. The tent is open at bottom and closed at top. Extending across the middle of the tenthead is a bail (I, provided, at its center, with a grommet or eye, 6, for reception of a series of branch. lines or cords, fff, extending from a common hoisting-line, g, leading from a cleat, l1, and through guide-pulleys i Ir, arranged as shown. These branch lines radiate from the grommet to holes through the upper frame of the tent and thence descend to, and are fastened to, the lower frame, the whole being so that on pulling the hoisting-line g downward the said lower frame may be raised up to the upper frame, and the tent be collapsed. The tent is supported by a rope, 0", provided with two branch ropes, l in, running through pulleys n 0 p q, arranged as shown, and being connected to the upper frame of the tent at its two ends by other branch lines, all as represented. The rope 1', at its lower part, is looped upon a cleat, s. The purpose of the rope r and its branches is not only to support the tent and adjust it with respect to the floor and a carriage, but to pull it, when collapsed, up to the ceiling, in order that it may be entirely out of the way of carriages while being moved from place to place in the carriage house or apartment.

The common method of covering a carriage, in order to protect it from dust or injury by such animals as rats, cats, or dogs, has been by a sheet or cover of cloth merely thrown over it. Such a cover, while being drawn on or off a carriage, is very apt to scratch it more or less, more especially on its top; but with my tent-cover, provided with means, as described, for manipulating it, as set forth, there is no danger of such injury to a carriage. lt

w1ll answer for a high or a low carriage.

I make no claim to the bedstead-canopy con structed and furnished with devices for collapsing it, as represented in Letters Patent No. 101,165. I make no use of a disk and spokes for supporting the upper part of a collapsible tent or cover I); nor do I have the collapsinglines so arranged that in order to collapse the cover a person is obliged to be inside, or to reach inside, thereof-a proceeding which would be very inconvenient, if not impossible, to carry out when a carriage is within the cover.

In my arrangement of the collapsing tackle it runs up through the bail, and thence down outside of the cover, so that all the operations of collapsing andlowering the cover relatively to a carriage can be effected by a person while outside. of the cover.

WVhat I claim as my invention is- The bail d, the collapsing-tackle consisting of lines fg andpulleys i k, and the supporting and lifting tackle consisting of the lines 1 l m and pulleys 1i, 0 p q, all arranged and operating substantially as shown, and for the purpose described.

EDSON H. ELLIOTT.

lYitnesscs R. H. EDDY, J. It. Snow. 

